Balance: 23,029 Yuan. (T/N: About 3,300 USD.)
Enough to coast for a little while. This was also the confidence Kaito had to quit his job.
Without this balance, he really would have had to think twice about resigning.
Now Baal was attached to his body, manifesting as a Raiden Shogun-specific tri-tomoe symbol tattoo on his chest.
This was attachment.
Baal was embedded within him, she's in his heart, understand?
"Hello, handsome. What would you like to buy?"
Entering a relatively large clothing store, a salesgirl perked up at Kaito's arrival and came over to greet him warmly.
"Yeah, I need to buy a few outfits for my wife, including some intimate apparel."
This was a larger store in the mall, carrying both men's and women's clothing, including intimate apparel.
The clothing quality wasn't bad, nor top-tier, generally priced between one or two hundred to five or six hundred Yuan.
Kaito wouldn't buy too cheap, and couldn't afford too expensive, so this place was just right.
"Oh... I see. Handsome, please follow me."
Hearing Kaito was buying for his wife, the girl's initial excitement visibly dimmed a bit.
But fortunately, Kaito was still very pleasing to the eye, and she remained quite enthusiastic in her recommendations while he bought clothes for Baal.
It's just that...
"Handsome, your wife's figure is... this good..."
The salesgirl's voice was filled with disbelief, 'This handsome guy's woman was way too voluptuous!!'
'This height, these clothing sizes... I mean...!!'
"Yeah, my wife has the heart of a goddess, a kami-sama approachable by all."
Kaito calmly picked out clothes, then bought several pairs of black stockings.
Sorry, he's part of the black stocking faction.
Black stockings are forever god!
"Alright, that's it."
After swiftly buying everything, the salesgirl went off to question her life.
Only a woman like that could match a handsome guy like Kaito!
Envy, hate!!
The salesgirl didn't need to imagine the face of Kaito's so-called wife; just from these measurements, she knew how badly she lost!
Originally thinking she had some looks and considering making a move, she now had no such thoughts.
Of course, only a man as tall as Kaito at 186 cm could handle a woman like that... (T/N: In China, 186 cm was already considered very tall, as the average is only 170cm.)
Because the woman would wear high heels; the man had to be taller than her even with heels on!
Thinking like that, indeed, beauty matches handsome... tall guys generally aren't bad-looking, so the salesgirl felt that unknown woman must naturally be a perfect match for Kaito.
Leaving the clothing store, Kaito smiled and bid farewell to the slightly sulky salesgirl whose eyes had lost their sparkle.
"Master..."
"Alright, alright, bought it all for you. We'll change into them when we get back."
"..."
Baal was actually even more sulky than the salesgirl.
This master bought her clothes entirely according to his own taste!
Never once thought to ask her opinion!!
Even the intimate apparel was like this!
Darn it!!!
On the way back, Kaito also bought Baal several pairs of shoes, from casual to low heels, high heels, slippers, etc., then items like aprons and towels. This trip cost over 6000 Yuan.
That wasn't even including cosmetics. Women are just that expensive.
Carrying large and small bags back home, Kaito laid out all the clothes. Baal sighed deeply, resignedly materializing from Kaito.
"Master, thank you for spending so much today."
"It's nothing. Organize these yourself. I'll go out and buy some groceries."
With that, Kaito left again, phone in hand, looking at the chat group.
Inside the group, all was peaceful, chatting about ordinary daily life.
[Akina]: Oh no, my daughter seems to have recently taken an interest in Shogi...
[Shodai]: What? What? Isn't it good that she's interested in Shogi? What's wrong?
[Akina]: Well... actually, I don't really like Shogi. The reason is that my father abandoned the family business for Shogi, completely neglecting the family.
[Shodai]: Ahaha... that's... too obsessed. (Awkward.jpg)
[Akina]: Yes, the thing that bothers me most now is that my daughter seems interested in a sixteen-year-old boy... I'm considering whether I should contact the authorities first.
Akina came online and immediately revealed what she had discovered.
Seeing the situation spiral out of control, her daughter continued playing Shogi in secret after being told to stop. This gave Akina a massive headache.
[Akina]: I regret it. I should have resisted the pressure and not agreed to host the Ryuo Title Match venue at my inn...
"Pfft..."
Seeing this, Kaito couldn't help but laugh.
From what Akina said, he roughly understood the plot progression.
It was probably about Kuzuryu Yaichi participating in the Ryuo Title Match, with the venue being the hot spring inn her family ran.
And Akina's daughter, Hinatsuru Ai, met Yaichi at the match venue, saw him looking like he was about to collapse at any moment, and poured him a glass of water.
'Hmm...'
'To be fair, the idea that he was about to go into shock and needed just a glass of water to recover was a bit absurd. Didn't he have water to drink while playing shogi?'
'Wait, isn't tap water in Japan drinkable directly?'
Anyway, because they met in this scenario, Ai also developed a strong interest in Shogi.
Three months later, just like her mother before her, she ran away from home, even surpassing her. Her mother left at 17, she left at 9!
She traveled alone by bullet train to Osaka to apprentice herself to Yaichi.
This plot was certainly full of strangeness, but the anime was still enjoyable to watch. At least Kaito treated it as an intense battle anime.
Right? They'd constantly switch to intense BGM, then Ai would cheat at Shogi, plus the original had Chuunibyou battle scenes. It's ridiculous!